Word: radars
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Belarus claims that information never reached officials at the military base, 100 miles southwest of Minsk, where a blip produced by Fraenckel and Stuart-Jervis' balloon suddenly appeared on radar screens, dangerously close to one of several strategic missile bases that dot the area. Belarussian officials sent two Mi-24 helicopter gunships into the air to investigate. One of the choppers found the balloon, approached within 110 yards and attempted, without success, to establish radio contact. (Race organizers suspect that the pilots were unable to respond because their batteries had gone dead during the three-day flight...
...belligerent: NATO. As the official protector of the four remaining U.N.-declared safe areas, NATO retaliated with air power last month after a Serb mortar shell killed 43 people in Sarajevo. On Aug. 30, the alliance launched heavy attacks on Serb military storage areas, ammunition plants, missile sites and radar and communications centers around Sarajevo, the Serbs' capital of Pale and other parts of Bosnia. NATO then warned Bosnian Serb commander Ratko Mladic that he had to pull his heavy weapons back from the city and give the U.N. freedom of movement or face major punishment from the air. After...
...produce a cease-fire agreement along with the set of principles. That would have halted the gunfire on the ground and also enabled NATO to suspend the air strikes. As it is, the allies will run out of so-called Option 2 targets--the relatively bloodless ammunition dumps and radar stations--as early as next week...
...August: the New York way, which might be called terrorist-driven; and the California way, which might be called technology-jinxed. In New York City last Monday, the three big area airports briefly ceased business. The cause was a bomb threat to the obscure yet vital New York Terminal Radar Approach Control (TRACON), where 200 air-traffic controllers usher planes through a 150-mile radius around New York City. "There was reason to believe the caller had knowledge of the building and how it worked," says Phil Barbarello, head of the local traffic controllers' union. So the control center evacuated...
Then there was California. In mid-August, Joe Dimas, a controller at the Oakland Air Route Traffic Control Center in Fremont, watched his radar screen go blank. Then the backup failed. And his radio died. "This was the scariest thing I've ever seen," says Dimas, who with his colleagues was guiding 295 planes. A 20-year-old generator and its replacement had blown. During the 35-min. blackout, a United Airlines Boeing 757 nearly collided with an Alaska Airlines MD-80. Hundreds of flights were grounded...